I've done this for production servers that haven't died yet or to add drives to an older server that I will for testing. I pickup used drives with a warranty from someone like Sillworks. Go to www.sillworks.com and see if they have your model and check out their prices. There is another one that I have used. Can't remember their name, but if I do, I will edit this post.

PS-If you get vendor-specific equipment like this from the mfr and the technology is outdated, they always charge out the nose for it.

If it's for a test server, buy a used HP ML350 G4 or something used. We are still using them for DC's and you can get them cheaply used, and I buy used drives to replace RAID volumes at times. No problems so far!

See thing is we have it coming out of our production cycle - we're removing something on it and putting it onto a new hyper-v server - we have this already, just need to drop in new drives to make it more usable.

Gotcha - yes I kind of thought after I posted (duh, the guy already has a server). Are they real large capacity or large quantity? they don't look overly expensive online from what I'm used to paying. We have Dell 2950's and the HP G4's here.

I've done this for production servers that haven't died yet or to add drives to an older server that I will for testing. I pickup used drives with a warranty from someone like Sillworks. Go to www.sillworks.com and see if they have your model and check out their prices. There is another one that I have used. Can't remember their name, but if I do, I will edit this post.

PS-If you get vendor-specific equipment like this from the mfr and the technology is outdated, they always charge out the nose for it.

Were shutting the server down and dragging it into our cubes like its a pray for the IT pack so we can get SCCM rolling. its our #1 requested thing and people are already chomping at the bit when we mention we can do half of what it can with GPO's

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